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The main goal of our environmental educational activities are focused in helping birder guides to improve birding techniques and also, to involve children, their parents and teachers into bird watching. This is way we joined "Conservation through birding". Through APIE and its volunteers, we coordinate several conservation through birding activities, such as:

Endemic Bird of Puerto Rico Bird Festival at the Maricao State Forest (May, as part of the Caribbean Endemic Bird Festival)

In September, 2014, we signed a five-year contract with the Authority for the Redevelopment of Roosevelt Roads in order to offer birding trips, nature walks, historical tours. As part of the proposal, we included an environmental education program (Proyecto Mucarito) and an annual fund for research mini grants. Of each birding trip, $1 will go to this fund.

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1(a) Support the protection of important bird habitat.

1(b) To avoid stressing birds or exposing them to danger, exercise restraint and caution during observation, photography, sound recording, or filming.

Limit the use of recordings and other methods of attracting birds, and never use such methods in heavily birded areas, or for attracting any species that is Threatened, Endangered, or of Special Concern, or is rare in your local area;

Keep well back from nests and nesting colonies, roosts, display areas, and important feeding sites. In such sensitive areas, if there is a need for extended observation, photography, filming, or recording, try to use a blind or hide, and take advantage of natural cover.

Use artificial light sparingly for filming or photography, especially for close-ups.

1(c) Before advertising the presence of a rare bird, evaluate the potential for disturbance to the bird, its surroundings, and other people in the area, and proceed only if access can be controlled, disturbance minimized, and permission has been obtained from private land-owners. The sites of rare nesting birds should be divulged only to the proper conservation authorities.

1(d) Stay on roads, trails, and paths where they exist; otherwise keep habitat disturbance to a minimum.

For more information on American Birding Association´s PRINCIPLES OF BIRDING ETHICS, please visit their website.